The five men were accused of conducting a parallel state congress for the nomination of governorship candidate in Anambra State on Saturday.

A letter announcing the suspension of the Uba brothers and others had been sent to the affected party chiefs by the acting National Secretary, Dr. Charles Akintoye.

The acting secretary was directed to write them on their current status having snubbed the NWC which invited them to explain the role they played at the parallel congress.

The letter, dated August 29, read in part, “The NWC at its 353rd meeting held on Wednesday, 28th August, 2013 reviewed the happenings in Anambra PDP regarding the Anambra Primary election.

“It was noted that you organised a parallel state congress which was unauthorised by the party contrary to section 58 (1) a, b, c, f, h and j of the PDP constitution (2012 as amended).

“As a result of this, you were invited to meet with the NWC on Wednesday 28, August, 2013 for fair hearing, but you did not appear.

“In view of the seriousness of the issues involved, you are hereby suspended from the party and the case referred to the appropriate Disciplinary Committee for further necessary action.”

However, sources close to the affected party officers said that the affected party chieftains have obtained a Court order stopping the party from taking and disciplinary action against them but the party had served them with the decision before they got the court order.

Reacting to the suspension, Chris Uba, expressed surprise at his suspension, adding that there was no reason for the action taken by the PDP.

He said, “I was surprised to hear that I have been suspended. I want us to respect democracy and the rule of law. We must protect the rule of law and the judiciary.

“Why the rush in suspending me and the five others? There were more than a million PDP members at the congress. They should have suspended all of us.”

Also, Andy said he had not been served with the suspension from the party and because of that, he would not react to it.

Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has assured participants at the National Convention of the PDP and FCT residents that the police would provide water-tight security during the party’s convention taking place on Saturday at the Eagle Square, Abuja.

Consequently, the IG had issued an Operational Order directing the FCT Commissioner of Police, FCT, Femi Ogunbayode, to ensure a tactical and well coordinated deployment of personnel and other operational equipment in order to provide a safe and conducive atmosphere for the convention.

PDP will know no peace until mentally unstable Bamanga Tukur is removed as chairman.

Ronald Gowe

If PDP likes they can replace Tukur…. A sinking Titanic heads for one place only

tony are

Tukur is a disaster and Jonathan takes forever to make a decision

wonder ends not

tony nwoye might not be well known but may have d best intention in turning anambra around. I want to urge us not being popula or well known like ngige, andy and soludo. Let’s give chance to nwoye and see how far he can go, he might not be popula but I might win people’s hearts. Apc likes presenting a popula candidate with hope that the popularity attached would help! like what happened in ondo state where apc presented akeredolu because of his popularity and rubbished other contestants but akeredolu gallantly failed.

kokoma

tony nwoye is not known in the pages of newspaper but the youths and those that matter in anambra state know him too well…

tony are

You make a good point. PDP Should bring it’s house in order then. A divided house can’t win an election

Onovadabigoiz

It’s amazing how Bamanga Tukur is steering the Ship..with the suspension of this Men..the ship is heading towards an iceberg…and to those that thinks that the grass root vote or opinion counted that’s why Nwoye won, OBJ say I Laf…with this single act PDP has lost anambara, it’s a money state…the poverty level in Nigeria won’t let the masses vote count because they move towards where the money is during elections, as soon as the politicians enter the office…you have become history and their promises swept under the carpet…no matter how we look at it …money will play a very major role in Anambara election to which I will tell you Nwoye doesn’t have the cash to finance his election except for political godfathers..which brings us to another point…when he gets into the office he will start doing projects, paying his godfathers and amassing his own wealth…the poor masses are never in their agenda…they are just tools to achieve their selfish political desires

Micky

Short your fuck up. How could you make such myopic assertion to the enviable people of Anambra

kokoma

with arthur eze and ibeto combined,,, let the ubas bring it on and they will meet their match money for money,,, as per popularity u dnt seem to know who tony nwoye is bcos u hav never heard his name… u will know soon

tony are

It is not about money but united front against formidable opponent. Bare in mind that Uba can run under labour

kokoma

it wil take a miracle to beat tony nwoye bro… in a months time u will know why i say so… uba once ran under labour and was handsomely defeated…

tony are

Thank you, you make sense here. You can always trust Tukur to be destructive. As a party chairman, he should have reconcile both parties before the primary

DrP2

It is all contrived to present a weak candidate from PDP so as to concede tactical victory to APGA but the Ubas cannot stomach being out if govt House Awka….they don’t lke following other people’s plot

EUO EUO

ANAMBRA VOTES FOR APGA IN ANAMBRA!!! ANAMBRA VOTES GEJ TO ASO ROCK 2015!!!! U GET THE POINT??? LAGOS DID IT FOR BRF AND GEJ BEFORE.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The Ubas should ply their trade at Abuja. Anambra Space is damned too small for big fish like they are

chris Gabriel

Strange that a party’s NWC invited her members, they ignored the invitation – Nobody complained. The party suspends them, people are complaining.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The hypocrisy of the Aggrieved Peoples Contraption (APC)

Okoko

I disagree with you on your submission about Anambra people. One, they are enlightened and they have the money. How much will you give a millionaire in Onitsha to buy his vote. With emergence of Obi as gov, what Anambrarians want now is someone who can continue the good works of developing the state. Let me tell you that whoever comes in there will either work or have serious problem.

Edu/Stuttsgat

You have heard of ships with Ice Breakers? PDP is one ship built as One

akara

Lolxxx… Money does not countfor elections in most of SW, anymore..

Iyke Eweka

The man who the gods has destined NEVER TO BE A GOVERNOR

Uche

So Chris and Andy Uba now know democracy and rule of law? When they masterminded the kidnapping of Gov Ngige they were ignorant of democracy and rule of law then, right? The Ubas are criminals who in a decent society should be in jail. This is a good decision by PDP.

tony are

Mumu, was Ngige a victim or part of the whole dodgy dealings? Why are you mixing Andy with Chris Uba because they are brothers? Ngige and Chris rigged together and nothing to do with Andy who was working for presidency then

EUO EUO

OKAY. WHY WAS ANDY THE SHORTEST SERVING GOVERNOR IN THE HISTORY NIGERIA AND MAY BE AFRICA OR EVEN THE WHOLE WORLD??? 17 DAYS GOVERNOR?!! WHY????

tony are

Sometimes I wonder what is in you people brains. Nigeria judges will screw up big time but is ok because you don’t like the person the judgement is against.
If I may recalled, the yeye corrupt Supreme Court knew fully well that election was scheduled in the state but did not give order to postpone the election then came back to nullified the election after 3 months. They think they screwed Uba, after 4 governors were illegally removed by court

Edu/Stuttsgat

He was a rigger of election. Imagine he scored over 4 million votes while the entire registered voters with INEC is under 4 million

danjuma mallo

Absolutely correct, it is good and better that we should learn to sieve the grains from the chaffs, else, we will always continue to be robbing peter to pay paul.

tony are

Thank you

Ben Whonana

And where do you think the order to “arrest” a sitting governor,came from?.Who controls the police force?.Granted Ngige had already compromised himself,but there were constitutional means for removing him from office.Remember injustice to one is injustice to all.

And please try and restrain the urge to insult,when replying to a post.It does not tell well of you when you do this.We are all adults here and should comport ourselves accordingly.People hold divergent views.If you fail to acknowledge this fact,then you are not better than the politicians we all love to bash here everyday.

EUO EUO

HE WHO GOES TO EQUITY SHOULD GO WITH CLEAN HANDS! CHRIS NGIGE WENT TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE DIRECTLY FROM OKIJA SHRINE WHERE HE WENT TO SIGN ON VERY DANGEROUS DOTED RED LINES WITH HIS UBA AND GANG. WHATEVER YOU HEAR TODAY OR TOMORROW ABOUT NGIGE SHOULD NOT SURPRISE YOU AND MAKE YOU ANGRY. ANAMBRA PEOPLE NEED MEN OF INTEGRITY TO GOVERN THEM .

paul

Igege chris never a governor so arresting him at anytime is allowed by law. ringing and call yourself a governor is the first offence so whatever happen to him is good and it served him well.

tony are

You must have short memory like a fish. President then was away with Atiku as the most senior FG person available. What was rumoured was that Chris Uba bribed police zone commander to do his bidding. Presidency ordered probe where the AIG was compulsory retired. B4 that, Atiku ordered Ngige released.
Is there anything else you want to remember?

Edu/Stuttsgat

Anambra has become too small for the big fish in Charles Solution Soludo, Andy Uba and Chris Uba. They should ply their trade at the Federal Level

Ben Whonana

“Presidency ordered probe where the AIG was compulsory retired. B4 that, Atiku ordered Ngige released.”And that is your i dea of punishment for abducting a sitting governor?.Even if he was just an ordinary citizen,is that punishment enough for kidnap?.No matter what views you hold you should be able to condemn a wrongdoing when you see it.

That is our problem in Nigeria,we identify with individuals and fail,or refuse to see when they go wrong.And when we do not like a person we fail or refuse to see anything right they do.This country belongs to us to us all,it is in our hands to see it succeed or fail.We all need to have a change of attitude.Condemn impunity in whatever form.We have a constitution,and we ought to respect and allow it to guide us in all we do.

However he got into office,Ngige was a governor.And until he was removed from office by constitutional means he remained the governor.You cannot on one hand condone the kidnap of a man,just because you do not like him and on the other hand cry foul when your brother or a man you identify with is hounded unjustly by authorities.Like i said injustice to one is injustice to all.

And how did you know my name is fish?.Thank you for letting me know fish have a short memory.

tony are

You write so much rubbish for little points. You must remember that Ngige reported to have resigned and his letter with his genuine signature was given to the state assembly. Perhaps, if Ngige had not involved in dodgy dealings with Chris Uba, this won’t have arose.

Lucky

Thank you Ben. You have a point there but it is annoying that we all have problem, affecting the majority, some very few minority because they benefitting from it see them as what is normal to happen. As for me, whether Ngige compromised then or not, abducting a sitting Gov’nor is unacceptable and should be condemned by all and implementators of such should be punished appropriately for that. It is unfortunate at that time, we all lived a lawless society

ken

You must be a very intelligent man.

Uyome

Chris Uba was working on the directive given to him by his brother, Andy Uba. The truth is that Ngige was a political criminal for ganging up with the Uba’s to steal Anambra mandate for PDP. Ngige ran out of luck when the burden imposed on him was too heavy that he decided to compromise. He was abducted by his Criminal gangs and was forced to resign. Thank God that the entire scripts was later confessed to Obasanjo that they (the Ubas and Ngige) robbed ndi’Anambra their mandate to impose Ngige but Ngige fell short of their original decision.

Edu/Stuttsgat

The same Criminal Chris Ngige is warming up to fly the APC Governorship Ticket

Uyome

This time around, maybe Ngige will go through the roof!!!

tony are

So, why making Ngige an hero?

Lucky

Forget that Tony. Ubas are Ubas anytime anyday. No wonder pple like you and the Ubas are the tiny problems we have in Anambra politics we do not pay attention.

Edu/Stuttsgat

PDP surely knows how to take care of their errant sons and daughters. Charles Solution Soludo is in the Political Wilderness. The Uba brothers have joined so soon. Hope they team up with the Riotous one in Rivers State to beef up the Voice of the People

Point blank

They are known for breaking the egg, spilling the York so that everybody looses.
They will soon jump ship and join another party. Do or die thugs-politicians.

Emeka Emedom

People , really don’t understand and follow the political system of Nigeria . Prof. Charles Soludo , would have been a better candidate in the Governorship election or race , if only he had picked form from PDP , but he was afraid that Uba family ,Andy Uba would be the man to be the flag-bearer ,he ran to APGA , knowing very clear that Peter Obi is a secret member of PDP . Among all the contestant , Prof. Charles Soludo would have won handsomely .Now Andy Uba is out of the race , Soludo out , the only notable candidate there is DR. Chris , and I know he will not win because he is from a wrong party[APC] in Igbo land . Therefore , Obiano of APGA , will win the election. He will be the next Anambra Gov. Lets watch and see. Nobody knows the future political bearing of Prof Charles Soludo , and that was why they tactically and carefully screened him out of the race , since he has made it so open and clear that he don’t like PDP AND IT’S MANIFESTOS , that means APC could easily bought him over.

kokoma

underestimate tony nwoye at your own peril

tony are

Lol, u make me laugh. Soludo is a technocrat not a good politician. This is shown every time. Soludo may have the best credentials but not necessarily the best person. As a politician, you may have the best plan but you must know how to implement it through the people. I will bet on Andy Uba been the best in that regard

Edu/Stuttsgat

The rigger of election – Andy Uba will not occupy Government House, Awka

tony are

Yeah, nah you go vote for everybody?

ken

Every body in this forum comments on one bad thing or the other about Andy Uba and you are supporting him . I don’t know this Andy Uba man but he must be bad judging from comments here.

tony are

Have you try finding out things for yourself and read it?

EUO EUO

IF SOLUDO GOES TO APC DO YOU THINK NGIGE CAN STEP DOWN FOR HIM?? EVEN IT HAPPENS THE SPIRIT OF BUKOHARI AND TINUBU APC HAS SINCE BEEN REJECTED IN IGBO LAND SO HE WILL FAIL AND BREAK WAIST IN ANAMBRA STATE. SOLUDO NEEDS TO SIT BACK FIRST AND PLAN AGAIN .

Edu/Stuttsgat

Soludo pitched his tent with APGA but was not reckoned with

Okoko

I don’t know why people kept hammering on the issue of veteran politicians and new comers. We should remember that those big wigs were discovered once. Nobody knew Ngige until 2003. Nobody knew Obi(politically) until he became the gov. Therefore that Obiano has not been in politics before does not mean he cannot perform if given the mandate. Anambrarians should look at credentials/pedigree of candidate rather than his standing in the political field.

JUJUMAN

FASHOLA was never a POLITICIAN, but he’s one of the BEST-GOVERNOR in Nigeria……… so SOLUDO, been a TECHNOCRAT wouldn’t STOP him from PERFORMING as a GOVERNOR

Edu/Stuttsgat

You see the evils that action Governor Fash the Bash is unleashing in Lagos? Everybody is complaining
Righteousness exalts a Nation but Sin is Reproach

akara

Lolxxx.. No one is complaining about anything in Lagos.. Stop deceiving yourself..

Ogbuefi Otunabo

Anambra youths restoration forum will ensure that the best candidate will win the election.wait and see

Tonny Ogbuoto

They have perfected plans to use the Police to bounce those not readily bounced.
As usual they shall block Lokoja point and then all routes into the Eagle square. This is the Idi Amin style of rulership against the Obote people.

tony are

Only God knows what you’re talking about

akara

Lolxxx.. Read more and you will know..

danjuma mallo

Any steps they employ to protect lives and property as a security measure should be appreciated rather than condemnation.

ken

You are in a wrong place .

tony are

People in PDP HQ never learned any lesson. Is it not the same thing they did last time and they lost?

VoiceofNigerians

419 look for another business

VoiceofNigerians

I am not one of those who believe that PDP can die easily like but I am beginning to doubt their survive the way they are suspending everybody if they still have members.

I wish they could suspend OBJ and Anenih

EUO EUO

THEY ARE SUSPENDING ABSURDITIES, DISOBEDIENCE AND INTRA PARTY GANGSTERISM.

Gideon17Up

Don’t worry, OBJ is the king of PDP. Anenih is the lieutenant. They reserve the right to tell anyone in PDP what to do. I dey laugh o.

Fidel98

The Ubas family has shown that they are above the rules and regulations of their party and that they will always do whatever they want to do at anytime and get away with it. The Nigeria court must be stopped from being used by politicians who never want to play by the rules and regulations of their respective parties. The children of disobedience in Nigeria politics today are too much and that is why they jump from one political party to the other causing problems here and there.Any judge that give court order to issues like this must be sacked because that judge must have been bought for such an act that will undermine the Nigerian democracy.

EUO EUO

U GONNA BE HAULED INTO KIRIKIRI MAXIMUM VERY SOON.

Dennix

Lollll

expozer

It is indeed very sad that we continue to handle people affairs with levity. At what point are we really going to learn from our mistakes. It is high time we allow common sense to rule.

kokoma

sell your bitter cola to andy uba,,,

Ujunkwerre,

@ Uche.. Good talk,keep good.

omoh

Politics ι§ a dirty game, ησ friend ησ foe, every one has got potentials ƒø® anything. May God have mercy. Нσω difficult it will ßƐ ƒø® the rich to get to heaven,мø₪є¥ ι§ what drives the politicians αn∂ ησω they crave power. Pdp has a way σƒ sweeping issues like this under the rug, after αℓℓ, its their family family.

akin

The wannabes

Prince IfeanyiChukwu Ifeka

When people build too many wall without enough bridges, the result is what we see here. Cultivate the attitude of bridge building and not pay mere leap service saying it. Nobody can be good commander without first learning how to obey. All men profess honesty as long as they can, to believe all men honest would be folly, to believe none is something worse. The big question now is what do we believe? We should therefore learn to fortify ourselves with contentment, because its an impregnable fortress. For your information, riches does not make a man rich, it only makes him busier. Wisdom consist in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. Character is that which reveals moral purposes, exposing the class of things man chooses and avoid. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. 08027205900

Q Prim

Brothers/sisters,

I think punch should disable anyone who uses derogatory word(s) on the other person. The fact that our posts are uploaded without editing them shows that punch is truly a free medium of expressing views. We should not abuse this privilege by using it
as a launch pad for attacking people – whether in government or outside it. Criticism
is natural and allowed in any society but please let’s make it constructive. By
conforming to this, we would have achieved the purpose for which this opportunity
is given in the first instance.

Hundreds of millions of people from outside Nigeria read our posts and we should not
misrepresent ourselves with these negative words. Let us know Nigeria to be the country to respect and adore.

One thing we should all know, note and remember is that Nigeria is the foremost asset all of us can lay claim to. Let’s preserve her integrity and speak well of her. It is not about the oil in the basins,economic trees in the forest, mineral resources in the rocks, or other natural resources we are blessed with; it is about us as a PEOPLE.

God does not make mistake, HE has His reasons for allowing us to be amalgamated about 100 years. Let us draw on our diversities and use them to build one BIG,
INDIVISIBLE and GREAT Nation

It is well with all of us.

God bless Nigeria

Peterson biafra

CPDP are in the spirit by suspending UBAS in criminals PDP . Ubas in Nigeria politics are bands , Ubas are founding of kidnappers in Nigeria . may God save Anambra state by this criminals kidnappers , anything uba my hand no dey-ooooooooooo. Only a kidnappers or other criminals will against me. Wakaaaaaaaaaaaa.

PDP suspension bonanza. Very soon only GEJ and Tukur will be left in PDP…..LMAO

Edu/Stuttsgat

Take your Crocodile Tears to Yoroba Land Gbeborun

olaola13

Crocodile tears?…NOT ….Just having a laugh about these clowns including you.

Zebby

these two criminals must govern by Anambra state by force. but they have failed already. they would be worse than Mbadinuju a million times.

Oganigwe

The Ubas are criminals-well known for rigging,kidnaping,killing,arson,obaining frivorous court orders and so following There is Federal HighCourt Awka Anambra State which has jurisdiction over those cases, why going to PH if there is no hiden agenda as per thosr court orders and the expected judgement there to.I cuation that judges should take crue from justice Egbo Egbo,justice Nnaji and A,I,G,Ige to mention but a few with regards to Anambra politics Anambrarians will never accept Uba..

Chudi. A

If the whole of Anambra state people cannot once and for all, for the good of the poor people of the state, do away with these already discredited and lowest class beings in the name of Uba, then they will deserve what they get after the election.

The world is fast changing and people are standing up for their rights, and demanding better from those they call leaders even in the face of great dangers and extreme brutality, and here we are, still wallowing in the abyss and strangle hold of two crass beings, whose known and proven past antecedents only qualify them as common criminals. The fact that this man is senator in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, instead of prison where he rightfully belongs, only bears testimony to the kind of country we live in and how low we have fallen as nation.

It was these same crass beings that orchestrated the kidnap of a seating governor under the protection of Olusegun Obasanjo, it was the same beings that burnt and destroyed public property in Anambra, it was this same Uba that started laying claims to Ibori’s criminal loot, these two are billionaires, but no one really knows where their company is, what they produce and how many people are employed in it and here they are again, now they want even more, to govern a whole state inhabited by human beings. It will be a Shame on Anambra state, if these criminals succeed.

The day Anambra people liberate themselves from the strangle hold of these criminals, will also be a day of justice!!!

Paulo

Praise the Lord. Evils, criminals and demons can not be my governor no more or contest. Thank you PDP. The Ubas’ should go and enjoy the billions of dollars they stole from Nigeria with the help of Mathew Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo. GCON (Grand Criminal Of Nigeria)

Eastern sun

I never knew that one can get jorgement from the court within 24 hours,appeal court for mater.Dr Andy said PDP was too much in a haste in their suspention order,but he wasn’t in a haste rushing down to P/H to purchase an injunction from the appeal court to stop PDP from counciling his purported primary. I wonder why the Abuja Jorge refuse Soludo hearing,telling him to go back to Anambra,but Andy was smart,he got his on a plater of gold. All this new model high court Jorge’s should be investigated

Nonso Cajetan

Uba family a lesson for you: Every day for the theif, one day for the owner. One day you gonna pay for the damages both physical and political sins you commited against Anambra people.

Danny

The Uba brothers are unfit to govern Anambra State, not after what they shamelessly did to the state with the active connivance of OBJ in recent past. They are morally bankrupt, and unfortunately think that money is everything. Chris Uba will try to turn the state’s treasury into a private one, if they get the chance. All Anambrarians should rally together, in their own interest, to keep them out of the government house. Kudos to the PDP for suspending Andy!

Columnists

"Mr Orubebe, you are former minister of the Federal Republic, you are a statesman in your own right and you must be careful about what you say and about the allegations or accusations that you make and certainly you must be careful about your public conducts."

INEC's Chairman, Attairu Jega cautioning Orubebe over his conduct during the release of the Presidential election results.